In a message dated 8/1/2003 5:13:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Roland Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>A friend of mine has some old Macs, a Mac II, Quadra 630, and a PowerComputing >PowerCenter, which he would like to network inexpensively. The Mac II is running >System 6.08. The Quadra is running some flavour of System 7.x. And finally, the >PowerCenter is running OS 8.6. > >I have some PhoneNet adapters which I could use to make all these computers talk to >each other. Since this is a mixed OS environment, I want to make certain that I have >all the software necessary to make everything run smoothly. In particular, System >6.08 is a concern since I have had little experience with this operating system. To network them: 1. Hook them up with phonenet connectors. 2. On each Mac, turn on AppleTalk in the chooser. If the button says Active on Restart instead of Active, restart after this step. 3. On the Quadra, go to System Folder-->Control Panels. Then open Sharing Setup. Enter your friend's name as the Owner and type a name for the computer (i.e. Quadra 630), then turn on File Sharing. It takes a while for File Sharing to turn on. 4. On the Power Center, go to System Folder-->Control Panels and open File Sharing. Do the same as on the Quadra. 5. On the Quadra, select the hard drive and choose Sharing... from the File menu. Check "Share this item and its contents". In the Owner pop-up menu, select your friend's name. Then check the three boxes to the right of it. 6. On the Power Center, select the hard drive and choose Get Info-->Sharing... from the file menu. Check the box to share this item, select his name from the Owner menu, and under Priveleges choose Read and Write. 7. On the Mac II, open the Chooser. There should be a box to enter your name. Enter the name there. It is important that the name is written the same on all the computers. 8. On the Power Center open the AppleTalk control panel and make sure that LocalTalk Built-in is selected. Do the same on the Quadra in the Network control panel. Now here's how it works. To connect open the Chooser and click AppleShare. You should see the names you typed, in a list (except the Mac II and the one you're using). Double-click the one you want to connect to, click on its hard drive, and connect. It's HD should mount on the desktop. To put something on the Mac II Connect to another, and copy things from its hard drive. You can't connect to the Mac II. You can add, delete, modify, or copy the contents of the other computer's hard drive. This ought to work. There's probably a better way, but this ought to work. You can also look at www.threemacs.com for more info. Mike -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
